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Literate Futures: Reading the Future (Video)SceneorimageScene/image description in video Question/activity Literate Futures:ReadingPositioningdocumentLiterate Futures: WholeschoolLiteracy PlanningGuidelines (WSLP)8. Allan Luke dialogue—Literacy for New TimesFeatures ofPrint LiteracySociallyCulturallyIdeologicallyEconomicallyPoliticallyFeatures of literacy forNew Times.Re-read p. 15.Re-view Lukedialogue9. As recently as fifty years ago the nation had quitea different view of what was necessary to equip aperson for the literacy demands of the workplaceand society.Although a migrant program was operating, thecountry was still seen as a monoculture.Education focused mainly on the presentation ofBritish and European literary traditions and correctspeech.For many, a job offered lifelong security. Therewas an emphasis on family values, parenting anddomestic practices.People listened avidly to the radio, readnewspapers for opinions of the day and went tothe cinema each week for another heart-racingsession of Buck Rogers in the 25 th Century.How have these developments shaped yourview of literacy? (Keep in mind that thosehistorical events that occurred before yourlifetime can still shape your opinions.)Consult Appendix4: Not Today’sMob (from theInternet). Thisdocument willgive you somebackground todraw on in orderto complete theactivity forScenes 10–14.© State of Queensland (Department of Education, Literate Futures Project) 2003. Page 6 of 18
Literate Futures: Reading the Future (Video)SceneorimageScene/image description in video Question/activity Literate Futures:ReadingPositioningdocumentLiterate Futures: WholeschoolLiteracy PlanningGuidelines (WSLP)10–14. Change, however, was already in the wind … ourcuriosity about the rest of the world finally got thebetter of us … fuelled by politics, a changingeconomy and the search for an identity …And of course … television …The 60s brought a new attitude to internationaltrade and relations. The Space Race influencedmoves to modernise industrially and domestically,and there was an orientation towards scientificand technological education.Put simply, we now looked to the world, inparticular America, for social, cultural andtechnological exemplars, and to Asia for economicexpansion.Mainhistoricaltrend orchange60s70s80s90s21 st Cent.Focus of literacy needed todeal with the trend or change10–14contd.The shift from sterling (1966) and a Labor government (1972) saw the 70s as a decade of reform. Traditional approaches and values were questioned as a largerproportion of the population was now from non–English-speaking backgrounds.By the 1980s we saw ourselves as a multicultural society with less emphasis on agricultural, manufacturing and service jobs, and a greater focus on ‘knowledge work’.The world seemed to shrink as communications networks expanded. We had become part of the global community.In the 1990s the focus was on ‘functional literacies’. Most workplaces were computerised … the types of jobs and working hours became flexible … and ongoingprofessional skilling was seen as essential. Mass consumption of entertainment and the other products of information and communication technologies created newopportunities and new ways of interacting with the world. It also created a need to rethink and redefine ‘literacy’ for the new millennium.And that is the greatest challenge of literacy education this century … to plan for and teach literacy within culturally and linguistically diverse school communities using abroad range of strategies that take advantage of current and appropriate technologies.15. Clearly, reading is at the heart of literacy. We readfor knowledge, information and pleasure … or allof these combined … anywhere and at any time.We do so to enhance our abilities to contributeconstructively in our homes and communities, andto become active democratic citizens.What different resources are accessed whenwe read for knowledge, information orpleasure? (e.g. genres, prior knowledge orexperience.)Consider the implicationsof this for WSLP onclassroom organisationand pedagogy.16. Literacy is intimately bound up with language. Weneed to learn a language before we can becomeliterate users of it, and we use literacy as a way tolearn other things through language.What is the difference between language andliteracy?© State of Queensland (Department of Education, Literate Futures Project) 2003. Page 7 of 18
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